Aghloe

Good Point! i will keep it in mind. I guess any proper bot-protection should be server-side but its a start So true, and i am so glad to have a nice starting point already compiled so i can take small steps to fine-tune it Eventually when i am more confident of my knowledge of rAthena i will do so, there is so much that can be done with scripts config files and database so compiling its unavoidable. but for a small group of friends playing casual, testing and learning purposes i think this its great! Thank you very much for an awesome post, and getting me started into rathena

Hello everyone, i am from the future :3 (just kidding). I made an account so i could say this: This pack is amazing for starting with Athena server! Thanks! Worked just as advertised on Windows 8. Just follow OP instructions and remember to run ROclient/setup.exe after everything is done. Playing Offline is fine and all, but since i wanted to share it with my friends, i did some research on rAthena forums and eureka! running Online with minimal changes. Still, i am unsure why would you put data/clientside.xml inside the GRF... I know it is stated as an "offline" server... but is there any reason it should stay offline? like... major memory leaks or something i should be aware? Anyway, if anyone else want to turn this into an online server like me, is not that hard, but here are some tips: + PortFoward all 3 ports (not just 6900) + map_ip & char_ip should have your WAN IP (athena/conf/map_athena.conf & char_athena.conf) + clientside.xml is inside "rAthena2017.grf" (you pasted it inside your ROclient)